YOUR PRODUCT.
BEFORE YOU
BUILD IT.
Right the first time. Results you can see.
Iterate less & ship a better product faster.
FROM SIMULATION
TO CERTAINTY.
CROSS DOMAIN EXPERIENCE
WE KNOW WHERE TO LOOK.
Borrow the best method from aerospace, apply it to naval. Steal from motorsport, solve a renewable energy problem. We connect dots across industries — and that’s where the best answers hide.
ENGINEER TO ENGINEER
NO HANDOFFS.
Physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers working on the same problem, at the same time. The solution gets framed, solved, coded and validated without ever leaving the room.
BUILT, NOT BRIEFED
WE DON’T STOP AT THE REPORT.
Build you a tool, not a document. Custom software, digital twins and AI-driven optimisation you can run again next year — long after most consultants have moved on.
ONE TEAM, ONE THREAD
NO LOST CONTEXT.
Take your idea from simulation to physical testing without switching partners. Keep every insight, every decision, every iteration — nothing gets lost in translation.
OUR DEPARTMENTS
Two halves of the same practice: software that automates the design work, and the R&D that answers what nobody has answered yet.
SOFTWARE
Custom solvers, parametric workflows, surrogate models and design space explorers — built around your product, run on your hardware.
SOLVERSOPTIMIZATIONSPIPELINES
R&D
From TRL 2 concept to TRL 7 qualification — modelling, instrumented rigs, simulation-to-test correlation and engineering judgement.
CONCEPTSRIG AND TESTCORRELATION
A SELECTION OF OUR PROJECTS
Pick a sector to see what the work looks like there.
ENGINE INTAKE REDESIGNED IN 2–3 ITERATIONS, NOT MONTHS.
A tiltrotor programme needed better propulsive efficiency. Nablawave coupled CFD solvers with automated search algorithms and TSHAFT engine simulation to find optimal intake and exhaust geometries — iterating to convergence in just 2–3 cycles, then confirmed in the wind tunnel.
THE MOST IMPORTANT LOAD WAS THE ONE NOBODY MODELLED
Most analyses of a vertical-axis rotor ignore the interaction between aerodynamic and structural behaviour. A coupling code linked a solid modeller, a CFD solver and an FEM code to separate the two — and the inertial contribution turned out to dominate at every shell thickness.
20% MORE THRUST WITH A METHOD FROM AEROSPACE.
A rim-driven thruster has more in common with an axial pump than with a propeller. MPROP tested each configuration in seconds, so an optimiser could explore the geometry space in under five minutes — where one CFD run takes hours.
THE STAGNANT AIR WAS FOUND, THEN DESIGNED OUT.
NablaHVAC runs a ventilation analysis from a 2D or 3D CAD model of the space, finding the areas that are poorly ventilated or not recirculating at all — then tests a new machine layout against summer and winter conditions before anything is installed.
AN ENTIRE GYM
IN ONE MACHINE
A startup had a robotic machine that could simulate any load — and a prototype whose cable jammed, whose firmware misfired and whose costs were too high. Two years of AGILE development with an R&D team drawn from inside and outside Nablawave took it into production.
A FOOD-GRADE PUMP DESIGNED BEFORE IT WAS BUILT.
A pump maker needed a twin screw pump for high-viscosity food fluids, and their first prototype missed on efficiency, functionality and cost. A design module sized the hydraulics, the gearbox and the seal losses in advance — then the bench tests confirmed it.
OPERATING TEMPERATURES, WITHOUT RUNNING CFD.
A liquid-cooled system is sized on its operating temperatures, and full CFD answers that accurately but far too slowly for preliminary design. A code built on proprietary algorithms returns the temperatures through the circuit from a handful of input parameters.
THE VELOCITY WHERE THE FLOW STARTS TO OSCILLATE.
A stainless steel corrugated hose was vibrating in service, with components failing early. The corrugation is what makes it flexible and what disturbs the flow, and no analytical method predicts that. Unsteady CFD resolved the profile across three sizes and several flow rates.
LAMINATE BEHAVIOUR WITHOUT RUNNING FEM.
A laminate has more parameters than a metal part — material, fibre orientation, volume fraction, resin, layup, thickness — and changing one changes the rest. NablaCOMP implements Classical Lamination Theory directly, returning the deformation in seconds rather than days.
A SILICONE TIP VALIDATED BEFORE THE MOULD WAS CUT.
A startup was replacing the single-use cotton bud with a reusable silicone tip, inflated with air inside the ear canal. That deformability is the whole idea and all of the risk, so the simulation ran the worst case of the production tolerance rather than the nominal one.
INSTITUTIONS & COLLABORATIONS
MEET THE
TEAM
Nablawave was founded by four aerospace and mechanical engineers who spent years inside the hardest problems in propulsion, turbomachinery and fluid dynamics — then built a better way to solve them.
The team they’ve built around that reflects the same thinking. Fifteen specialists across aerospace, marine, energy and thermal systems — different backgrounds, different industries, same obsession with getting the physics right. No generalists, no handoffs. When you work with Nablawave, you work with the person who actually knows the domain.
CONTACT US
Tell us the problem rather than the service you think you need. The hardest projects we take on arrive as a question nobody has been able to answer yet. Whatever you send reaches the engineers who would do the work, and they are the ones who answer.